It is a questioning thought that, like a sudden pain, shoots through mind and body."
With these the oldest wood is cut right out from the base, and the blooming shoots left full length.
When he reaches the tree he is jumping for he shoots up a little way and lands on the trunk not far above the ground.
'We are twins, two shoots from one stem, which has been broken, and half lies in the ground and half sits at the head of this table.
The tree has been cut down already again and again; and yet has always thrown out fresh shoots and dropped fresh poison from its boughs.
Then a mouth opens, shoots out a pair of concertina-like lips, and changes into a funnel; and the poor little fish disappear into a chasm, like threads into a vacuum cleaner.
The Indian with a crude knife fashions his bow and arrow, fastens the flint and cord which represent still other processes of industry, and shoots the bird which satisfies his hunger.
The Guelder Rose is a stiff-wooded thing, the character of its main stems being a kind of stark uprightness, though the great white balls hang out with a certain freedom from the newly-grown shoots.